Saffron And Brimstone: Strange Stories
Widely praised and widely read, Elizabeth Hand is regarded as one of America's leading literary fantasists. This new collection (an expansion of the limited-release Bibliomancy, which won the World Fantasy Award in 2005) showcases a wildly inventive author at the height of her powers. Included in...
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Widely praised and widely read, Elizabeth Hand is regarded as one of America's leading literary fantasists. This new collection (an expansion of the limited-release Bibliomancy, which won the World Fantasy Award in 2005) showcases a wildly inventive author at the height of her powers. Included in this collection are "The Least Trumps," in which a lonely women reaches out to the world through symbols, tattooing, and the Tarot, and "Pavane for a Prince of the Air," where neo-pagan rituals bring a recently departed soul to something very different than eternal rest. Written in the author's characteristic poetic prose and rich with the details of traumatic lives that are luminously transformed, Saffron and Brimstone is a worthy addition to an outstanding career.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781595820969 (1595820965)
Publish date: December 26th 2006
Publisher: M Press
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
***** Cleopatra Brimstone. A budding entomologist suffers a traumatic attack, and goes all Ms. 45 on some probably-undeserving men. Loved it. The supernatural/horror elements are unstinting, but the psychological/metaphorical aspects of the story are as delicate as butterfly wings, and carry the rin...
One-sentence summary: Strange, slightly-surreal short stories in the vein of Aimee Bender.Why did you get this book?: The title, I think.Do you like the cover?: Yes, if I didn't look too closely at the bug.Did you enjoy the book?: Yes. Ish. In every story, I would find myself enthralled and then irr...